Eccentric billionaire Harris Lang has made his money on tech innovations, so literature professor Addie Cox is more than a bit confused when Lang's people contact her for a super-secret project. Turns out that they need her geek bonafides to infiltrate a private island that Lang created as a high-priced destination for fans of fantasy realms. Yup, on Insula Mirabilis, Lang has created a land full of dwarves and elves and just ripe for questing — the only problem is that one of Lang's project directors has gone rogue, cutting off contact with Lang's headquarters and pulling a force field down around the island that has killed the crew of a Coast Guard vessel that was attempting to check in on the island. And from what Addie gathers, that rogue director is probably her Elvish-speaking ex-boyfriend Dominic.
If you combined Jurassic Park and Ready Player One, and then subbed in dragons and unicorns for all the dinosaurs and VR headsets, you'd probably get something like this book. It's fun and full of references to Dungeons & Dragons, Tolkien, Narnia, and a whole host of RPGs and Renaissance faires. Is it the best book ever? Nah. But it's a boatload of fun and well worth the read for fans of fantasy.
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